PORTLAND, Ore. — Well before the city of Portland passed an ordinance last summer requiring houses built before 1916 to be salvaged for re-use, Preston Browning was passionate about reclaimed lumber.

Windows were framed into the cordwood with rough-cut poplar. Post-and-beam construction combined with cordwood barn building produces a farmstead outbuilding that protects livestock in the winter and ...

(WBIR-North Knoxville) If you want to build something out of wood, you could always head down to your local hardware store or big box retailer to find some two by fours. If you want another option, ...

MITCHELL — The city of Mitchell is covering the landfill fees for demolition of an old barn out of budgeted funds for such ...

Good luck trying to corner local barn-building legend Dick Schwab for an interview. You might find him cleaning up at Celebration Barn on his timbered property off Sugar Bottom Road north of Iowa City ...

It's nice to have structures on our railways. You can often see coaling towers, sand stations, water towers, and sometimes a sawmill. A sawmill can also be a source of additional industries, such as a ...

The decision to tear down the barn wasn’t an easy one for Ann and Jerry Ohde. At one time, it was gleaming white and an important center of the life that Ann had built with her first husband, Nick ...

The sawmill is quiet. It rests on a patch of fallow ground at the fringe of our woodlot, the gas drained, the engine covered with a heavy tarp to protect it from inclement weather and nesting mice, ...

John Rousseau is a history buff, and it shows in his choice of headquarters for his architectural salvage firm, Barnstormers. The company is housed in a hulking building at the end of a spit of land ...

LAWSON, Mo. (KCTV) - Firefighters spent hours fighting the flames that destroyed part of a Missouri lumberyard. Emergency crews responded to the fire at Morrow and Sons Lumber in Lawson, Mo., shortly ...

TOWN OF BERLIN, Wis. — The decision to tear down the barn wasn't an easy one for Ann and Jerry Ohde. At one time, it was gleaming white, and an important center of the life that Ann had built with her ...